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Page 71
... evil nor yet an unmixed good , but only an illusion of the rankest character , yet which for the many at least has served as a nervous or emotional escape from a condition much too severe to be endured . In that sense , of course , the ...
... evil nor yet an unmixed good , but only an illusion of the rankest character , yet which for the many at least has served as a nervous or emotional escape from a condition much too severe to be endured . In that sense , of course , the ...
Page 212
... evil is a tonic in grains and a poison in ounces . The real problem of evil , the problem that justifies every assault upon war and poverty and disease , is to reduce it to amounts that can be spiritually assimilated . This doctrine is ...
... evil is a tonic in grains and a poison in ounces . The real problem of evil , the problem that justifies every assault upon war and poverty and disease , is to reduce it to amounts that can be spiritually assimilated . This doctrine is ...
Page 259
... evil — everything lives in the effect it produces on the Great Self . This Great Self lives forever as the everlasting monumental testimony of the triumphs and failures of the numberless individual selves . This conception of Social ...
... evil — everything lives in the effect it produces on the Great Self . This Great Self lives forever as the everlasting monumental testimony of the triumphs and failures of the numberless individual selves . This conception of Social ...
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